This section (or "turf") is specifically created for teachers that use the Earth Charter in their classrooms, it aims to provide useful resources for lessons plans, also to enable a space to share ideas, projects and your stories with other teachers around the world.We really hope that teachers from different parts of the world can interact in this website. Please visit our discussion forums and resource center, where you can rate the usefulness of a resource, upload other valuable resources and discuss important issues to you.
This is a tool that will aid you in bringing the Earth Charter into your classroom. Here you will find links related to lesson and unit plans that relate directly to the Earth Charter principles. We encourge you to add to our continually growing list of resources and to provide input as to how effective you found these resources.
Here you will find a remarkable database of Earth Charter and of Education for Sustainable Development related resources in digital format. These can be downloaded free-of-charge, and used and distributed as needed for educational and non for profit purposes. It is a useful resource to teachers looking to make practical use of the Earth Charter in their classrooms.
Teacher Discussion Area
In this area you will be able to meet other teacher to discuss and share ideas of how to better incorporate the concept and values of sustainability into your classrooms, as well as how the Earth Charter can be useful in this process. Check out the different discussions going on right now. To respond to existing discussions click on the relevant topic below and to start a new thread click on the discussion tab at the top of this page.
Centre for Cross Curricular Initiatives London http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/ccci/about.shtmlUKITE Network for Education Sustainable Development/Global Citizenship Conference 2008
Teachers Turf
Teacher Resource Center
This is a tool that will aid you in bringing the Earth Charter into your classroom. Here you will find links related to lesson and unit plans that relate directly to the Earth Charter principles. We encourge you to add to our continually growing list of resources and to provide input as to how effective you found these resources.
Earth Charter Virtual Library
Here you will find a remarkable database of Earth Charter and of Education for Sustainable Development related resources in digital format. These can be downloaded free-of-charge, and used and distributed as needed for educational and non for profit purposes. It is a useful resource to teachers looking to make practical use of the Earth Charter in their classrooms.
Teacher Discussion Area
In this area you will be able to meet other teacher to discuss and share ideas of how to better incorporate the concept and values of sustainability into your classrooms, as well as how the Earth Charter can be useful in this process. Check out the different discussions going on right now. To respond to existing discussions click on the relevant topic below and to start a new thread click on the discussion tab at the top of this page.Additonal Resources and Links
Sites for ESD and teachers:
- Good Practices – UNESCO site http://www.unece.org/env/esd/GoodPractices/list.html
- http://www2.unescobkk.org/education/ict/v2_2/detail.asp?id=18839
- http://www.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=3430
- UNECE Strategy for ESD http://www.unece.org/env/esd/Strategy&Framework.htm
- APEID Asia Pacific networks and projects on ESD (teachers training)
- http://www.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=12/apeid.htm
- Networks of APEID: i. APNIEVE: http://www.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=614
- Centre for Cross Curricular Initiatives London http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/ccci/about.shtmlUKITE Network for Education Sustainable Development/Global Citizenship Conference 2008
- Educational Subject Centre http://escalate.ac.uk/
- Teacher Training Resource Bank http://www.ttrb.ac.uk/browse2.aspx?anchorId=11871
- Sasketchwan ESD Network http://saskesd.ca/
- Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future – http://www4.gu.edu.au/ext/unesco/
- Life Alert: Music Inspired by the Earth Charter! Great educational tool to teach and reflect about sustainability.
- Videos of the EC+10 Festival in Brisbane, Australia, with local schools:
Title: Full Keynote Presentationii. Associated schools project http://www.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=613
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Duration: 00:26:54
Link: http://mediasite.eq.edu.au/eq/Viewer/?peid=202575d4b6554ec89c8af65e39b3bf22
Title: Aaron Wood
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Duration: 00:26:36
Link: http://mediasite.eq.edu.au/eq/Viewer/?peid=a7f5c7a513764b42864f32b6abeaa62f
Title: Bouganville Island speaker
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Duration: 00:04:08
Link: http://mediasite.eq.edu.au/eq/Viewer/?peid=b546e835cc684f91a4ccfe2caf359d2c
Title: Bulimba State School Presentation
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Duration: 00:25:19
Link: http://mediasite.eq.edu.au/eq/Viewer/?peid=c59458a158ea4ba1bdfc793ac36e7cca
Title: Keynote Presenter Kendon
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Duration: 00:22:20
Link: http://mediasite.eq.edu.au/eq/Viewer/?peid=8aeac9d2066e4b6586b0a76e23e8d8c1
Title: 1000 acts to change the world
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Duration: 00:05:05
Link: http://mediasite.eq.edu.au/eq/Viewer/?peid=ecd53431d261457fa0bbe0d6114d352c
Title: Particpating Schools
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Duration: 00:13:19
Link: http://mediasite.eq.edu.au/eq/Viewer/?peid=dd2832248893424c91b8125965a81e8b
Title: Closing and Thanks
Date: Friday, September 17, 2010
Duration: 00:04:37
Link: http://mediasite.eq.edu.au/eq/Viewer/?peid=9bb646b2379946fb9d096caef63a878c
15. Green Teacher Site: Full of great resources - Chech out the Low Carbon Lifestyles Toolkit!
http://www.greenteacher.org/